Matthew Lewis
E188133
Matthew Lewis was the father of English Gothic novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis, best known for his son’s authorship of the novel "The Monk."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Lewis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118747 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Lewis Context triple: [Matthew Gregory Lewis, father, Matthew Lewis]
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A.
Matthew Lewis
Matthew Lewis is an English actor best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series.
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B.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is an American actress and film producer best known as the daughter of acclaimed entertainer Whoopi Goldberg.
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E.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Lewis Target entity description: Matthew Lewis was the father of English Gothic novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis, best known for his son’s authorship of the novel "The Monk."
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A.
Matthew Lewis
Matthew Lewis is an English actor best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series.
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B.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is an American actress and film producer best known as the daughter of acclaimed entertainer Whoopi Goldberg.
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E.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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English Gothic novelist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| childOf | Matthew Lewis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| hasChild | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Matthew Lewis ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Monk ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Matthew Lewis Description of subject: Matthew Lewis was the father of English Gothic novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis, best known for his son’s authorship of the novel "The Monk."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.